Programming Terms & Structures

Define problem solving.

• Ability to formulate problems, think creatively, and express a solution clearly and accurately.
• High level language that can run on different kinds of computers with few or no modifications.
• A detailed set of instructions that tells a computer how to carry out a task.

Psuedocode is defined as 

• a device that detects important physical quality or quantity about surrounding environment.

• a group of interacting, interrelated elements that work together.

• shorthand notation for programming which uses a combination of informal programming structures and verbal descriptions of code, a detailed algorithm

• a detailed algorithm in visual form to show how the code will be designed and organized using specific shapes and brief descriptions

Programming languages are

• a system of discrete state, high or low, on or off,  1 or 0.
• languages that have been designed to express computations.
• a system that uses feedback from the output to control the input.

A compiler

• reads the program and translates it before the program starts running.
• occurs when the programmer does not follow the rules of programming.
• is a formal language.

Logic errors

• will not generate any error messages but will not output the right thing

• only appear until you run the program.

• use a # and the text will be green.

An interpreter

• is a high level language that can run on different kinds of computers.
• translates the program.
• converts a program written in a higher level language line by line into a lower level language and executes it.

Efficiency is 

• anything your robot does.
• the ability to bring about a desired result with the least amount of time, energy, or material.
• a touch sensor used to limit the motion of a device.

While loop is

• a control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly.

• occurs when the programmer does not follow the rules of the language.

• code that functions improperly or badly.

• used to count the number of iterations for a (group of) statements.

A Match statement is:

• A selection structure in Python

• A loop structure in Python

• An output structure in Python

• An input structure in Python

The process of translating PYTHON code to machine language is:

• Compiler

• Interpreter

• Neither

• Both